Miwa Messer
Miwa Messer is the creator, executive producer and host of our podcast, Poured Over, a show for readers who pore over details, obsess over sentences and ideas and stories and character — readers who ask a lot of questions, just like her, a career bookseller who’s always reading.
Booksellers, Riffing: The Color Purple
Booksellers love to talk about all-time favorites and their current must-reads, the books that changed them and the books they…
Film has the Power to Bring Readers to Books: Rumaan Alam on Adapting Leave the World Behind
We’ve been huge fans of Rumaan Alam’s since we tapped his debut novel, Rich and Pretty, for our Discover Great…
And the Winner is: 2023 National Book Awards Edition
“What a great, great, great, great joy for me to be here, to share the same space with all of…
History Will Always Find You: Books for Native American Heritage Month
That line, History will always find you, comes from the poem, “Break My Heart”, by former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy…
Some of These Things are True and Some of Them Lies. But They are All Good Stories: Reading Hilary Mantel
It was Wolf Hall, her intimate, accessible, unforgettable novel set at the court of King Henry VIII, that put Hilary…
History Shapes How We Move Through the World: Reading Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward — two-time winner of the National Book Award and 2017 MacArthur Fellow (the “Genius Grant”) — is one…
And the Winner is… (Nobel Prize for Literature Edition)
The Swedish Academy’s mandate for the Nobel Prize in Literature is simple, with the annual prize going to a writer…
National Book Award Finalists 2023
Drumroll please… This is a big day for books and writers and readers — this year’s crop of National Book…
